Cantara wiki — Claude Code MCP server: Cantara wiki archive
A remote MCP server that hands your agent the Cantara open source wiki: 2,290 articles from 2008 to 2022. Useful when you need background on Norwegian open source work.
claude mcp add --transport http wiki https://mcp.cantara.no/mcpWhat Cantara wiki — community knowledge web does
The server speaks HTTP and serves the archive as a signed KCP knowledge web. Its articles come from the Cantara community wiki that used to run on Confluence at wiki.cantara.no. The content was recovered from a Wayback Machine snapshot, last captured in 2022. A live copy of the wiki sits at cantara.github.io/wiki.
Nothing gets installed on your machine — the agent talks to the remote endpoint https://mcp.cantara.no/mcp. Running your own copy of the wiki is a separate job: it needs mkdocs and mkdocs-material, installed with pip install mkdocs mkdocs-material, then started with mkdocs serve.
The archive stops at 2022, so recent edits are not in there. Fine as a source on project history and older material; wrong tool if you need the current state of anything.
What it helps with
- pull up an old Cantara wiki article on a project
- give the agent background on Norwegian open source work
- check what the wiki said before 2022
- run a local copy of the wiki with mkdocs
- reach a knowledge base without downloading files
Example prompts for the agent
- Find Cantara wiki articles about this project
- What did the Cantara wiki say about integrations before 2022?
- Serve a local copy of the Cantara wiki with mkdocs
How to install Cantara wiki — community knowledge web
Platform CLI: remote server
claude mcp add --transport http wiki https://mcp.cantara.no/mcpPlatform CLI: remote server
codex mcp add cantara-wiki-community-knowledge-web --url https://mcp.cantara.no/mcpConfig file
{
"mcpServers": {
"cantara-wiki-community-knowledge-web": {
"url": "https://mcp.cantara.no/mcp"
}
}
}Config file
{
"servers": {
"cantara-wiki-community-knowledge-web": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.cantara.no/mcp"
}
}
}Platform CLI: remote server
gemini mcp add -t http cantara-wiki-community-knowledge-web https://mcp.cantara.no/mcpStep by step, with commands for each platform: How to add an MCP server to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI and more
Questions about Cantara wiki — community knowledge web
How do I install Cantara wiki in Claude Code?
Run claude mcp add --transport http wiki https://mcp.cantara.no/mcp to register the server as wiki. The same endpoint also works under the name cantara-wiki-community-knowledge-web.
What does Cantara wiki do?
It exposes the Cantara open source wiki archive to your agent as a signed KCP knowledge web. The archive holds 2,290 articles spanning 2008 to 2022.
Where did the archived articles come from?
They were recovered from a Wayback Machine snapshot, last captured in 2022. The original wiki ran on Confluence at wiki.cantara.no.
